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The Vee One Suite of old-school software instruments, aka. the gang of three have gone through yet another milestone: synthv1, as one polyphonic synthesizer, samplv1, a polyphonic sampler and drumkv1, as one drum-kit sampler, are now part of the Summer'15 release frenzy :)

Reset ramps after LV2 control port reconnection; small fixes to LV2.ttl (pull-requests by Hanspeter Portner aka. ventosus, on synthv1, thanks).

MIDI Controllers/Programs is now an optional feature on the LV2 plugin forms, as some LV2 hosts might enforce the purity restriction to input control ports as being absolutely read-only parameter values from a plugin's instance perspective.

MIDI Controller mapping/learn is now possible on all parameter control knobs; with global configuration also available on the Help/Configure dialog.

And it lands at the precise moment sourceforge.net outage disaster is still going through hopefully out of recovery hell. Also worth noting is that Qsampler is now raked as a genuine Qt5 application, leaving Qt4 behind but still an option.

Qsampler is a LinuxSampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer.

Most advanced Setup/Settings are moved into new Setup/Advanced settings tab; limit range for the real-time priority setting, now having 6 as absolute minimum valid value (after patches by Robin Gareus, thanks).

A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore sub-routine is now in effect (EXPERIMENTAL)

Delayed geometry setup for widget windows upon startup has been deprecated and scrapped altogether.

Setup/settings dialog tab is going into some layout changes; also got rid of old patchbay auto-refresh timer cruft, which was previously hidden/disabled.

New socket names are now automatically inferred from selected client names while on the Patchbay widget, Socket dialog.

Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.

German (de) translation update (by Guido Scholz, thanks).

License:

QjackCtl stands free, still open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

Well, the major highlight to this release is in fact this brand new and way long overdue feature, seamlessly integrated to the faithful and regular audio track export function: MIDI track instrument plug-in rendering and mix-down (aka. freeze) is now real, as long their audio output goes onto selected buses, aka. stems, mix-groups, whatever a mix/mastering head would name it! nb. on the (very exquisite) Qtractor arch-model parlance, those are just called "audio output buses" and that ain't gonna change, any time soon, so stop it! A word of caution must be told by now: dedicated (JACK) audio output ports are off-the-grid, so sorry.

Maybe this silently makes a notch towards the DAW epitome, though Qtractor still claims to be just a plain and honest sequencer--with yet another DAW-like feature addition--the same as it ever was.

As a micro dot release override, the current sixth beta release is out and crunching the earlier fifth to oblivion ;)

Howdy,

The Vee One Suite of old-school software instruments, aka. the gang of three have bumped over another tiny notch: synthv1, as one polyphonic synthesizer, samplv1, a polyphonic sampler and drumkv1, as one drum-kit sampler, are now being released to the masses. Again ;)

There's no big audible changes, if any at all, yet this sixth beta release is rather a probable bug fix for drumkv1 LV2 on Ardour (v3 and v4).

Anyway, it's all gone as follows:

Sample file drag-and-drop support has been added to the note element list widget (drumkv1 only).

Main widget layout changed as much to allow sampler display and element list to expand or grow vertically as needed (samplv1 and drumkv1).

Sample file path mapping has been fixed for LV2 plugin state restoration, which were preventing Ardour to reload any of the saved session or preset sample files in particular (re. drumkv1 only).